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apan and China conc!ude a "jriendship treaty"; China 's leader tours Eastern Europe, taunting Rus–
sia; a worried Krem/in woos West Germany; relations sour between the U.
S.
ancl Europe. A dramatic
realignment ofpoliticalJorces is under way. Are the major nations and power blocs of the H·or/d mov-
ing into the final end-1ime configurarion Joretold in Bib/e prophecy?
N
ot since the hectic months
immedia te ly preceding
World War 11 has the world
seen such dramatic diploma tic activ–
ity as has occurred in the
last halfof 1978.
On August 12. Japan
and China signed a
"peace and friendship
treaty"' effectively linking
China's 900 million
people and vasl. sti ll
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re–
sources with the unparal–
l e led manufacturin g,
technological and market–
ing skills of Asia's indus–
trial dynamo.
Only days afte rwa rd ,
Hua Kuo-feng. China's
Communist Party chair–
by
Gene H. Hogberg
barked on an historie tou r of Eu–
rope-the first leader ever in China's
lo ng hi s tory to travcl wes t of
Moscow. Thc smi ling. confident
Chairman Hua boldly denounced
archfoe Russia's policies right in the
U.S.S.R.'s Balkan backyard. in the
two maverick Communist nations
of
... Yugoslavia and Romanía.
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(Photo above shows Hua
j
da ncing the Romanian
"' hora
in Bucharest.) His
17- da y tour atso took
him to oil-rich Iran. an–
o ther of the Soviet
Union's wary neighbors.
man and prime minister
SOVIET PRESIDENT BREZHNEV
discusses
a point with
(he holds both titles) em-
West German President Scheel during visit to Bonn in May.
C hin a's spe.c ta c ul ar
thru s t into the world
arena has thrown the So–
viet Union into a tizzy.
For the moment, th e
Kremlin is at a complete
loss as to what to do.
Moscow once thought that
it had "contai ned" the
fea red " Yellow Peri
l."
Now th e tabl es have
The
PLAIN TRUTH Deoember 1978
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